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A poetry collection titled ‘The dream we had together’ by acclaimed poet, writer, editor and Nepali literary Journalism Award recipient Dhruva Thapa, was officially released his poetry collection recently at Hs Lordships restaurant in the city of Berkeley, Ca, USA.
Release of the poetry collection...

Excerpts of the interview with the Hong Kong-based Nepali writer, Tim I Gurung, who himself call a writer of conscience and righteousness.
Tim I Gurung
Could you describe your journey to the British Gurkha Army to a Hong Kong-based novelist?
Tim: I came to Hong Kong in 1980 at 17 as a Gurkha soldier,...

Literary giant M. H. Abrams died on Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 102. Abrams transformed the study of Romanticism with the critical histories “The Mirror and the Lamp” and “Natural Supernaturalism,” and edited the first seven editions of “The Norton Anthology of English Literature”.
Cornell...

Kathmandu: One more feather on Amar Shah’s cap has been added after he comes up with a new book.
Story writer Amar Shah’s second publication named Kurukshetra has recently hit the bookstands in Kathmandu and across the country.
The collection of 22 stories, Kurukshetra is the second literary...

Kathmandu: Nepal Academy has published a book in Hindi on comparative study on Sanskrit spiritual Ramayan and Bhanubhakta’s Ramayan. The book is written by Ram Chandra Poudel.
The book published under the research scheme at the Academy was published with the assistance of Indian Embassy, said Professor...

Australian author Richard Flanagan was awarded the Man Booker prize 2014 for his book ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North.’ The jury members called book ‘a literary masterpiece’.
Flanagan’s book is about his father’s story as a jailbird during war in a Japan’s...

Manipur (India), October 12: Maiti, a compilation of short stories of Devi Prasad Sunyal Thapa, has been released on Sunday in Kanglatongbi, a small city in Manipur.
This is the fifth literary creation of Thapa, popularly known as Mama among the Nepali-speaking community in India.
Published by Gorkha...